It's time to get a husband, ladies. There's just a few rules you need to follow, says Susan Patton. (Shutterstock)

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Love it or hate it, it's Valentine's Day and that means, ladies, it's time to find yourself a husband. That's the word from Susan Patton at the Wall Street Journal, who notes you're probably spending much too much time on your career and not nearly enough on finding a man. After all, "you're not getting any younger, but the competition for the men you'd be interested in marrying most definitely is," she writes. And hey, if you start trying to fetch a man in your 30s, you'll be battling women in their 20s, and "that's not a competition in which you're likely to fare well. If you want to have children, your biological clock will be ticking loud enough to ward off any potential suitors."

Here's what to do: Find Mr. Right in college, then it's easy. Just don't have casual sex since "men won't buy the cow if the milk is free," Patton writes. If you don't snag a man in college, keep in touch with the smart guys anyway. "They'll probably do very well for themselves, and their desirability will only increase after graduation." But whoops, that poses a problem as "men who are as well-educated as you are often interested in younger, less challenging women." Sure, you could marry down, but forget about earning more than your husband. "Very few men have egos that can endure what they will see as a form of emasculation." Need more, um, advice? Check out Patton's full column.

From a man's point of view, "you're not getting any younger" is horrid advice that should be discarded. Many poor choices have been made following this ill-fated mantra.

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Feb 16, 2014 12:17 PM CST

This is a typical conservative argument of locking women in houses and exploiting men as job slaves. After 60 years of feminism some women starting to realize that maybe being queen of the house with white fence and 2.5 kids is not as bad but it's too late. Men don't want to go back to old days of no sex before marriage or getting stuck in a sexless marriage. Men don't want to support women anymore because they see no benefit in that endeavor.